"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." -G ALATIANS 5:1 [KJV] The a postle Paul encourages and inspires every believer to "stand fast," defend at all cost the precious freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus [JOHN 8:32 ] . Through His perfect blood atonement [HEBREWS 9:12 ] , His provided righteousness imputed [ROMANS 4:6 ] , every believer has been set free; free from the curse of the Law [ G ALATIANS 3:13 ] , free from spiritual death [ E PHESIANS 2:1 ] and free from the condemnation of sin [ R OMANS 8:1 ] . Not only are we instructed to "stand fast," defend and hold to the ground of salvation by free grace in Christ Jesus at all cost, but we are also encouraged NOT to be entangled with the "yoke of bondage" [ G ALATIANS 2:16 ] . Don't be entangled, hampered or ensnared again with the bondage of works and law to obtain the favor and blessings...

"But the salvation of the righteous is of the L ORD : H e is their strength in the time of trouble." -P SALM 37:39 [KJV] Times of trouble try the saint of God, and they are meant to do so; that is the very purpose why they are sent, for "the Lord trieth the righteous." Still the promise holds good: " H e is their strength in the time of trouble." When H e breaks up the fountains of the great deep of sin and iniquity, H e strengthens H is people that they may not be carried away by the flood. When H e hides H is face, H e strengthens them to say, "Though H e slay me, yet will I trust in H im." When temptation besets them sore, when they are put into the furnace, the Lord is with them there, as H e was with the three men whom Nebuchadnezzar cast in. The Son of God is there with them, so that not a hair of their head is singed, nor does the smell of fire pass upon them [DANIEL 3:27 ] .   In all their afflictions He is affl...

"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." - II TIMOTHY 2:3 [KJV] We often get into states and frames of mind, where we need something else besides consolation. A child would not grow, if it were always fed upon sweetmeats. It must have exercise, and be exposed to the weather, and have the cold winds blow upon its face, and be hardened, so as to enable it to bear the chill winter and the nipping frosts. So the child of God is not always petted, and fed upon love-tokens. He is not always carried in the warm bosom, or sucking the breasts of consolation, but he has to learn lessons to fit him to be a soldier. The soldier, we know, has to endure hardships. He has to lie all night upon the wet grass; to be pinched with hunger, parched with thirst, and nipped with cold; to make harassing marches; to hear the roar of the cannon and the whistling of the bullets, "the thunder of the captains and the shouting;" to see the f...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (17-19APR20) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from our sins and from Hell: JUSTIFIED FREELY Faith is not the impulsive or moving cause of Justification. It is an act of pure and free grace, without any motive in the creature: Therefore the apostle saith, "...being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ" [EPHESIANS 1:7] . But this benefit would not be of grace, but of works, was our faith the impulsive cause of it: because faith is a work or act of ours, as we learn from the words of Christ: "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent" [JOHN 6:29] . Salvation is not of works, in any branch of it; "for by grace are we saved, through f...

1. My hope is a good hope if my hope is based on the Word of God alone [ROMANS 15:4 ] ! 2. My hope is a good hope if my hope rests entirely on Jesus Christ living for me and in me [COLOSSIANS 1:27 ] ! 3. My hope is a good hope which gives me joy, peace, and rest in trusting and leaning on Christ [ROMANS 15:13 ] ! 4. My hope is a good hope which rests in faith and confidence regardless of circumstances [ROMANS 4:16-18 ] ! 5. My hope is a good hope which continues in faith and perseveres to the end of this life [HEBREWS 3:6 ] ! - Gospel report by preacher Henry T. Mahan Please find enclosed link to audio Gospel sermons: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Henry_Mahan

"There is something infinitely vast and glorious in the righteousness of God. When the deluge covered the earth, it covered the highest mountains. Looking down from above, not one mountain-top could be seen, but a vast world of waters - a vast plain reflecting the beams of the sun. So if you this day lie down under the righteousness of God, the mountains of your sins will not be seen, but only the vast, deep, glorious righteousness of your God and Savior . If you were to cast a stone into the deepest part of the ocean, it would be lost and swallowed up by the deep waves of ocean; so when a sinner is cast down under the righteousness of God, he is as it were lost and swallowed up in Christ."   -copied

"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." -H EBREWS 13:8 [KJV] The eye of our faith must be ever fixed on Jesus, for the Person of Christ is the grand object of faith, and to lose sight of Him is to lose sight of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Is He not the same Jesus now that He was on earth? He is exalted, it is true, to an inconceivable height of glory, so that when John saw Him, even as if in some measure veiled, he fell at his feet as dead. But He is the same Jesus now as when He was the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as He wears the same human body, so He has the same tender, compassionate heart. All that He was upon earth as Jesus, He is in heaven still. All that tenderness and gentleness, all that pity to poor sensible sinners, all that compassion on the ignorant and on those that are out of the way, all that grace and truth which came by Him and were manifest in Him, all that bleeding, dying love, all tha...